| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Debt - from household to national.(R) 00:45Bells on Sunday from the Parish Church of St. Peter, Tiverton in Devon(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30When two cousins meet in Belfast, the former best friends must confront their futures(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Lezley Stewart. 05:45A new report identifies brownfield sites in England that can accommodate a million homes 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Chris Packham presents the Indian cuckoo found across much of South East Asia.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Lezley Stewart. 05:45A charity describes how uncertainties over Brexit are feeding into farmers' stress. 05:58Kate Humble presents the grasshopper warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Lezley Stewart. 05:45Daffs are blooming in the fields - but are there enough pickers to get them to market? 05:58David Attenborough presents the pied flycatcher.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Lezley Stewart. 05:45Michael Gove addresses no-deal contingency planning for Northern Ireland farmers. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the kingfisher.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Lezley Stewart. 05:45Is 5G the answer to rural connectivity? 05:58Michael Palin presents the northern cardinal from a New York's Central Park.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment to begin the day with autism adviser Ann Memmott. 05:45Part two of iPM's visit to Islay
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday comes from Sheffield Cathedral. 05:45Bex Lewis on Jesus’ Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and her cancer diagnosis.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Clare Balding hears some unlikely stories about lighthouses on a walk around Plymouth.(R) 06:30Has spring really sprung - and if so, what does that mean for farmers? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 06:05Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski explores attitudes towards the unexpected. 06:35Lindsey Chapman updates this Living World on eider ducks in Northumberland. From 2002. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News headlines and sport.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10William Crawley with the week's religious news and current affairs. 07:54Ben Okri makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Book Aid International 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10President of Girls’ Brigade England and Wales Rachel Gardner preaches on Mothering Sunday. 08:48John Gray reflects on where British politics goes from here.(R) 08:58Peacocks remind peace and environment activist Satish Kumar of childhood monsoons.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fiona MacCarthy, Tamsin Wimhurst and Alison Brown. 09:45Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music.
| 09:00Physicist Paul Davies on the origin of life, aliens and the evolution of cancer. 09:30Dr Girdari Bhan, past president of the World Hindu Council UK, discusses mourning. 09:45Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music.
| 09:00Clarke Peters continues his surprising history of black music in Europe. 09:30Jenny Kleeman explores places at the extremes of UK society.(R) 09:45Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries. 09:45Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music.
| 09:00Jacqueline de Rojas shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.(R) 09:45Aeham Ahmad’s dramatic story of how he defied the war in Syria with his music.
| 09:00Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, racing presenter Alice Plunkett, bobsleigh pilot Lamin Deen.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00We speak to three generations of women fighting for the environment. 10:45By Nick Walker. Annika investigates the death of Tor's class teacher.(R)
| 10:00We discuss child marriage in Afghanistan, plus the new book on Jack the Ripper's victims. 10:45By Nick Walker. Annika is sent to Sandefjord harbour where a body has been found.
| 10:00Victoria, the ballet; women's jobs and automation; Zeenat Aman; Virginia Hall. 10:41By Nick Walker. Investigating a death on a cruiser, Annika finds herself all at sea.(R) 10:55Two friends in their 30s compare notes on the different paths their lives have taken.
| 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. 10:45By Nick Walker. Annika gets a nasty surprise investigating a death in Lillehammer.
| 10:00Brexit anxiety. Bedtime Stories. Managing pain in women. 10:45By Nick Walker. While in therapy, Annika has to solve a murder at the Oslo theatre.
| 10:30It's 25 years since the film Bhaji on the Beach. What's changed for British Asian women?
| 10:00Tom discovers a surprising truth and Freddie returns to Ambridge
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| 11:00 | 11:002/2Lucas Laursen investigates Spain's missing children from the Franco era and decades after. 11:304/4Mary returns to Liverpool 40 years after she was forced to leave...
| 11:00Malibu - heaven on earth - but when disaster comes what rises from the ashes? 11:30Turning base metal into musical gold - swordsmiths and Dead Rats!(R)
| 11:00Life for the child of an alcoholic can be lonely. Camilla Tominey hears their stories. 11:304/4The actor-cum-sleuth battles to solve the puzzle of all the 'accidents' in a musical.
| 11:00Tensions are rising on Ukraine's western border 11:30Frances Morris travels to Paris to meet mischievous French artist Sophie Calle.
| 11:00Branwen Jeffreys on how the fallout from a fiscal illusion will impact universities. 11:301/4The team are confronted with an unexpected challenge - a can of water.
| 11:00Top commentators review the political week. 11:30Marching bands in Myanmar as the army celebrates, but it's an army accused of genocide
| 11:15Martin Freeman, actor, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure. 12:18Shop rent deadline day, #NoSpend plans, vaping and life insurance 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure. 12:18What's the best way to read - books, screens or audio books? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure. 12:18Radio 4's consumer affairs programme. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure. 12:18Does automation necessarily mean jobs losses? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure 12:18Juggling work with caring, Amazon expansion, and banning junk food advertising. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Administrator's report finds 'highly suspicious transactions.' 12:306/7Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:048/8Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Fern Britton and Gyles Brandreth join Nicholas Parsons.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon hears the stories of pies and the people whose lives were changed by them. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45From deadly chaos a mysterious figure emerges.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45The man from nowhere slides up the greasy pole.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45All the world – or at least all of Russia – is a stage.
| 13:00News with Sarah Montague including how can MPs agree on Brexit plus concern over Huawei. 13:45Loyalties are tested as street power grows.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45A fight for survival and a message for the West.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Dover Castle Keep.
| 13:00Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell 13:30Professor Emma Griffin turns to history to debunk what she calls the Motherhood Myth.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Lily fears for the future(R) 14:158/8The Balarac return with a gift. A new uncomfortable alliance or a deadly game?
| 14:00Tom discovers a surprising truth(R) 14:15By Donna Franceschild. Sometimes scattering ashes stirs up more than just grief.
| 14:00A business meeting ends badly for Pat(R) 14:15Emotional drama about meetings between victims and perpetrators of three violent crimes.
| 14:00It’s all change for Alistair.(R) 14:15Will wakes to find he has travelled 100 years into the future to a post-capitalist London.(R)
| 14:00Natasha is put on the spot(R) 14:15By Caroline Horton. Things are fine for Pandora, so why did she try to kill herself?(R)
| 14:301/2Tom Stoppard's comedy about two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
| 14:00Eric Robson and his panel of experts are in East Meon, Hampshire.(R) 14:45Fi Glover presents three conversations from a male perspective.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Robot chefs are working in burger joints and pizzerias. Will they be in our homes next?(R)
| 15:006/6Josie Long presents adventures in sound inspired by the Rilke poem Early Spring. 15:30Can fast fashion be forced to slow down? Lucy Siegle reports
| 15:00A big shake-up to the UK's tax system starts on 1 April. Join Louise Cooper and guests. 15:30Fiddling figures in research, involving parents in the care of premature babies, feedback.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding hears some unlikely stories about lighthouses on a walk around Plymouth. 15:27Jeremy Deller makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Koestler Trust(R) 15:30Siri Hustvedt discusses her new novel Memories of the Future(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and his panel of experts are in East Meon, Hampshire. 15:45When two cousins meet in Belfast, the former best friends must confront their futures
| 15:30Turning base metal into musical gold - swordsmiths and Dead Rats!(R)
| 15:002/2The two minor characters sail for England - will they be able to hand Hamlet over?
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| 16:00 | 16:00Amber Butchart talks to embroidery artists about their complex, political, dynamic artwork 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores whether it is possible to find a haven online.
| 16:00Lara Whyte investigates the new wave of female hardline right-wing activists. 16:30Nicola Walker and Sarah Ann Kennedy discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
| 16:00Cute and kitsch: their nature and changing meaning. 16:30Alastair Fothergill is the producer behind some of the world's most popular nature shows
| 16:00Actor, writer and director Jessica Hynes discusses Satyajit Ray's The World of Apu. 16:30UK pollinating insect numbers, tracking whales using barnacles and sleep signals.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a philosopher, a police officer, an artist, a professor and a singer 16:30Roger Bolton on the controversial documentary In the Right and the BBC's annual plan. 16:55Friends talk about losing a baby which was due on the day Britain is scheduled to Brexit.
| 16:00Eastern European music from Fran & Flora. Anxiety about maths. The WWII Spy Virginia Hall.
| 16:00Taylor Jenkins Reid talks about her latest novel Daisy Jones & The Six. 16:30A portrait of Swansea-based poet and singer Jack Jones.
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| 17:00 | 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Can business plan for uncertainty? Evan Davis and guests discuss 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Anand Menon explores the role of towns in our national psyche and politics.(R) 17:40This week Oliver Letwin persuaded the Commons to try to agree its own Brexit plan.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Theresa May says discussions continuing on giving MPs third meaningful vote 18:308/8Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Fern Britton and Gyles Brandreth join Nicholas Parsons.
| 18:00MPs have explained how Parliament will test support for different Brexit ideas tomorrow 18:302/6Journalist and broadcaster Robert Peston reads from his 1974 teenage diaries.(R)
| 18:00Prime Minister tells Tory MPs she'll leave before next phase of negotiations with EU 18:301/4Comedy set in a Scots-Asian corner shop. Written by Sanjeev Kohli and Donald Mcleary.
| 18:00MPs are to have another vote on Brexit tomorrow - but only on the withdrawal agreement. 18:30Marcus Brigstocke stars as Budleigh Salterton’s biggest idiot come to help sort Brexit.
| 18:00PM warns MPs' third rejection of Brexit plan is grave Thousands join pro-leave protest 18:306/7Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week with Adrian Goldberg.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Tom discovers a surprising truth 19:15At Eternity's Gate, Matthew Herbert's Brexit Big Band, Van Gogh and Britain, Scott Walker. 19:451/5Shonagon is summoned to meet the new empress, a strange and disturbing encounter.(R)
| 19:00A business meeting ends badly for Pat 19:15A history of classical music in ten minutes with pianist Jeremy Denk. 19:452/5Lady Shonagon disgraces herself in front the empress, who sends her spies to investigate.(R)
| 19:00It’s all change for Alistair. 19:15Scottish artist Katie Paterson on working with scientists researching the cosmic spectrum. 19:453/5Concerned for Shonagon, Yukinari attempts to unravel the visions.(R)
| 19:00Natasha is put on the spot 19:15Tash Aw on his latest novel We the Survivors. Plus the ethics of arts sponsorship. 19:454/5Shonagon leaves the palace during a storm, but she is pursued by disturbing visions.(R)
| 19:00Freddie returns to Ambridge 19:15Ian Rankin reviews Local Hero on stage in Edinburgh. Plus the art of the anti-climax. 19:455/5Shonagon and Saisho wander the palace at night. But they are not alone.(R)
| 19:00This week Oliver Letwin persuaded the Commons to try to agree its own Brexit plan. 19:15Dumbo, Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Van Gogh and Britain, Ewan Morrison, Sean Scully.
| 19:00Freddie makes his presence felt. 19:15A lively, topical show, with a largely female panel, hosted by Jo Bunting.(R) 19:453/3The third in a new series of specially commissioned stories by top crime writers.
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| 20:00 | 20:003/3Steve Richards looks back on Theresa May's Brexit journey through interviews with insiders 20:30Will competition between China and the United States inevitably lead to military conflict?
| 20:00Anand Menon explores the role of towns in our national psyche and politics. 20:40Delays to Access to Work and guide dogs guide a visually impaired runner in half marathon.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. 20:45Bex Lewis on Jesus’ Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and her cancer diagnosis.
| 20:00Brexit or not, what does Britain's place in the world look like? 20:30Can business plan for uncertainty? Evan Davis and guests discuss(R)
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Dover Castle Keep. 20:50John Gray reflects on where British politics goes from here.
| 20:00Philosopher and policy maker Mary Warnock meets her younger self in the BBC sound archive
| 20:00Roger Bolton on the controversial documentary In the Right and the BBC's annual plan. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a philosopher, a police officer, an artist, a professor and a singer(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Peter White, born blind, meets actress Samantha Renke, who has brittle bone disease. 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fiona MacCarthy, Tamsin Wimhurst and Alison Brown.(R)
| 21:00Fiddling figures in research, involving parents in the care of premature babies, feedback. 21:30Physicist Paul Davies on the origin of life, aliens and the evolution of cancer.(R)
| 21:00Can fast fashion be forced to slow down? Lucy Siegle reports 21:30Clarke Peters continues his surprising history of black music in Europe.
| 21:00UK pollinating insect numbers, tracking whales using barnacles and sleep signals.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.(R)
| 21:00Screen siren Kathleen Turner celebrates the film noir femme fatale's enduring mystique.
| 21:00Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set amongst 1960s Thames Barge-dwellers.
| 21:00Administrator's report finds 'highly suspicious transactions.'(R) 21:25Ben Okri makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Book Aid International 21:30Will competition between China and the United States inevitably lead to military conflict?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45The new novel by John Lanchester, author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests preview the week in politics.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Encounters with the people of Calais and Dover finding out what unites and divides them. 23:30Another day of key Brexit votes in the Commons. Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Character comedy series with Marc Wootton and friends playing couples on date night. 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:002/4Peter Curran and Patrick Marber wrestle life's challenges while laying in the dark. 23:153/4Tom Parry has a theory that fancy dress can change your life.(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:00A lively, topical show, with a largely female panel, hosted by Jo Bunting. 23:30All the news from Westminster with Susan Hulme
| 23:00Nicola Walker and Sarah Ann Kennedy discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster. 23:55Friends talk about weddings and engagements in the family and about learning to let go.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Sabrina Mahfouz, British Egyptian playwright, shares the readings that mean most to her.
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